The united opinion. [volume] (Bradford, Vt.) 1881-1970, 1887-04-29
NEARLY FIFTY MILLION BIBLES.
Printed IN IGj Languages and Distrtb.
uted IIrOadclst Over the World.

Printed IN I0j Languages and Distrib.
uted broadcast Over the World.
The American Bible society has just COM
piled the results of its work for the past year
II has Issued 077,GO5 volumes, besides 500, 900
IN foreign lands This makes the total mum.
Der Of Bibles Issued by the society since its Or
ganization in 1916 4S,S5G.o5l. The corrected
proof of tine last pages of the New Testament
In Ponapo have beef, returned from Microne-
sin, and the last pages Of the Muskokee Testa-
ment from Okmulgee. The Dakotans want
new edition in their language.
The American Bible society has published
the Bible in ali the languages Of Europe, and
in Reval Estonian, Irish, Finnish, four dia-
lects of Africa, Csebo- Mpongwe, Benga, Di-
kele, Zulu; in the languages Of the Sandwich
Islands and Micronesia; in the Slavic, Bulga-
rian, Chinese and Japanese, and in ten North
American Indian dialects, making forty eight
in all. These issued by the British and For
eign Bible society makes the total number OF
languages and dialects in which the Bible is
printed to-day by these societies l65. OF
these the oldest looking are the Irish, Sla-
vonic, Turkish and Azerbijan or Tartar
Turkish, Georgian, Syriac, Arabic, Ethiopic,
Tigre (Which has colon after every world,
Amharic, Persian, Pail, Pari-Gujerati,
Sindhi, Cararese, Malaylam, Undu, 0rssa,
Siamese, Burman, Tbetah, Karen, Java
nese, Coptic, Cree, Time and Cherokee.
"How many translators do you employw
was asked of the Rev. DR.. Alex. Mclean, one
Of the secretaries
ave have no translators. The work is
done by the missionaries, who have to study
the language Of the country in which they
labor. The Bible society pays their expenses
while they are translating for u.s."
"How many Bibles have been printed for
the blind7"
"There were issued last year 207; the entire
number in forty years is 14,1S4 There are
in the raised letter FORM"
"What are the new Bibles for the blinds"
"We printed twelve years ago Bible in
the New York point print, and have printed
the Psalms in the same, and have now COM
pleted the Gospel according to st. john"
"What is the point print"
ut is system of points that represent
either separately or by combination the let
tiers Of the alphabet The old raised letters
could not be readily detected by fingers that
had become calloused by basket making, at
which many blind people work The points
can be felt by the dullest finger"
The cost Of supplying the Bible in foreign
lands is 800, 692.A more than is received
from them. One-ninth of all the families
visited by the agents gre destitute of the
Bible
It took DR.. Eli Smith and DR.. Van Dyck
sixteen years to translate the Bible into the
Arabic. DR.. Schauffler spent fourteen years
on the Osmanlee version. DR.. Schereschew-
sky fifteen years to render the Old Testament
into the Mandarin Colloquial. DR.. William
son and DR.. Riggs spent forty years on the
Dakotan version. One of them estimates
that be spent on an average thirty minutes
on every verse he translated. Since Bible So
cieties were organized $50 versions have been
produced in about 2)0 languages and dialects
New York Sun.